watching people stuff themselves at a chinese buffet

Never say never. You might very well catch yourself in a very similar situation one day and then wonder how you got there.

Agree. For some of us, we enter this "I'll never do that again" mode, and it simply doesn't hold true. Old habits start to sneak back in if you aren't uber careful, and you could be one of the ones finding yourself stuffing your face at a buffet again. I personally have visited a buffet twice since my surgery. I simply find the food to be of a lesser quality. I like real cheese on my salad, lol.

I remember watching someone at a regular coffeeshop type restaurant and they stuffed themselves so fast that food was falling off their fork and just gobbling it down. I know I used to eat that way, too, but I was repulsed jus****ching this other person and realizing how I must have looked in the same situation.

This surgery does help to rewire one's mind....

Maybe I'm just strange, but I just don'****ch other people eat. Oh, maybe if they're at the table WITH me, I'll check out their plate and ask "Is that good?" but I just don't generally NOTICE what/how much other people eat. Maybe because a meal, especially a meal outside the home, is a social occassion for me and I'm too busy talking. (*grin*)

Me too, not to mention enjoying my OWN food :-). Last night friends took Mr. EN and me out for hibachi, a first for me. I probably put on as much of a show for the chef as he did for us. DANG that was good food! All finished off with lovely clarified butter and loads of garlic YEAH BABY.

Oh, you mean go gawk at the fat slobs and preen about being better than they are?

Give me a break.

 They have a stomach the size of a two-liter bottle of soda and you have one the size of an egg.  It takes a lot of food for them to feel full.

I guess I don'****ch other people eat either.  But, I did used to eat that way before WLS.  I do still go to a local Chinese buffett on occasion because my husband, who doesn't have a weight problem and some how knows how to not over eat, loves to go there.  We're lucky though, because they have lots of seafood entrees as well as just plain steamed seafoods (clams, mussells, crab, shrimp) and many different stirfrys .  There's only one area where there is fried food.  They also have a prime rib, and grilled salmon choice and lots of vegetable choices.   I love there fresh cooked green beans.  I find that I can always have a great choice of protein and stay disciplined there.  The only thing I don't like about it is that I don't have the option of taking home my leftovers for another meal.  The price is reasonable and these places make their money because some of us just don't eat our money's worth.

You're going to the wrong Chinese buffet.  At the one I go to, I eat very good quality crab legs, kingfish, broccoli rabe and bok choy, a bite of lo mein if I'm in that mood.  For dessert I have some fruit and sometimes a sesame ball if I have a lot of room.  I am not disturbed by the mounded plates of others - I just can't imagine wasting precious stomach space on all those fluffy carbs anymore when there are crab legs!

I have a buffet like that too. It's lovely.